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by vatueil 8y ago
Any US visitors to that particular URL will see the same thing you're seeing. You probably want this page, though currently it just lets you request an invite: https://web.archive.org/web/20181001174931/https:
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by vatueil 8y ago
The posted article is probably incorrect to say the Motorola Razr was "introduced" July 2003. Either the author confused the phone's release date with when development work started: https://web.archive.org/web
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by vatueil 8y ago
From the article: > France is highly supportive of its independent booksellers: it has fixed book prices, and caps discounts at 5%, passing a bill in 2013 to stop retailers such as Amazon from combining the 5% discount with free deliver
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by vatueil 8y ago
That really is his Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/yousuck2020
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by vatueil 8y ago
Link to the discussion about Time Magazine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18001786
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by vatueil 8y ago
> technically possible Yes, it is technically possible for Google to commit corporate suicide. There are many things which are "technically possible" which are not remotely plausible.
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by vatueil 8y ago
We're talking Apple's self-driving car project, though. It's in the title. There's no indication Apple is trying to get into non-self-driving cars. Nobody said Level 5 (100% autonomy) is necessary, but presumably they&
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by vatueil 8y ago
Side-loading is no longer necessary. Since last November Microsoft Office is available on all Chromebooks with Android app support: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/27/16703952/microsoft-offic... There&#
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by vatueil 8y ago
Sleek UI and hardware is nice, but for autonomous vehicles AI is essential. You can have the best car in the world in other respects, but without AI it's not self-driving. Apple hasn't shown that it's particularly good at AI
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by vatueil 8y ago
California will also vote in November on whether to stop daylight savings time changes, either by getting rid of daylight savings time or making it permanent: * [San Francisco Chronicle] California voters will get a say on year-round daylig
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by vatueil 8y ago
Earlier front-page discussion on news article from Nature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17821253
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by vatueil 8y ago
Ars Technica noted that "Shot on iPhone" ads are technically correct but may use additional lenses and photo editing: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/huawei-was-caught-us... > Photos fro
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by vatueil 8y ago
Would it be better if there were only 500k Uighurs interned for political reasons, one of the more moderate estimates cited? I ask because I notice you went from 1 million in your original comment to 2 million in your reply. Where do you ex
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by vatueil 8y ago
Reports, such as the ones gathered in the posted link? There have been many other articles about Uighurs in Xianxing, too. The Economist covered the latest reports a few months ago, which was discussed on HN: * https://www.econom
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by vatueil 8y ago
First, that analogy is wrong. Android manufacturers have sold many devices running other operating systems, both free and proprietary. Second, pre-emptively accusing anyone who disagrees with you of pro-Google bias is fallacious. There are
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by vatueil 8y ago
Could we add "(2013)" to the HN title? Article is a re-post from 5 years ago. Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6582494
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by vatueil 8y ago
Seems kinda perverse. After all, you can't fork Windows, macOS, or iOS at all. Why should making Android more open than the competition lead to worse punishment?
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by vatueil 8y ago
In Ars Technica's article Nick Fox, VP of product design for Google Assistant, said: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/google-duplex-is-cal... > Fox didn't rule out selling this kind of te
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by vatueil 8y ago
People have been worrying that Google would shut down GrandCentral/Voice for years, though, ever since Google acquired it nearly a decade ago. So far those worries haven't been realized. Google Voice has even received major mobile
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by vatueil 8y ago
Lobbying power isn't just a factor of market cap. For example, consider how media groups such as the RIAA and MPAA have pushed for ever more intellectual property laws despite being smaller than the groups that would benefit from copyr
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by vatueil 8y ago
According to Ars Technica's article, it sounds like there's still opportunity to fix the net neutrality bill (or sink it): https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/california-net-n... > The a
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by vatueil 8y ago
> The only source seems to be what appears to be speculation by some person on IRC. It's not just some person on IRC, it's the author. He's citing himself.
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by vatueil 8y ago
The Library of Congress similarly receives a copy of every book published in the United States, though they don't permanently keep a copy of every book. Many other countries do the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by vatueil 8y ago
Not counting the Pixel C, I suppose? It's too bad Chrome OS wasn't ready for the tablet/convertible form factor in time for the Pixel C's release, given the rumors that it was originally supposed to be a Chrome OS device
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by vatueil 8y ago
Night Light works system-wide for me, including the lock screen. Samsung Chromebook Plus, single user, stable channel. If yours is bugged, perhaps setting a dark wallpaper background might help mitigate the issue? The rotation lock, I can&#
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by vatueil 8y ago
People don't need to be part of a secret organization to use the same arguments, sources, and terminology. A common cause or ideology will suffice. I'm sure shill-theorists are not puppets of a secret cabal, for example, despite t
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by vatueil 8y ago
> US bastardisations like 'color' and 'favour' I believe the American spelling is "favor".
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It's true social media such as reddit attracts marketing, but that doesn't mean everything that could be marketing is. The obvious problem with claims of invisible marketing is that they're impossible to disprove. Also, if sh
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by vatueil 8y ago
> And for the majority of the large subs for a specific interest, they are astroturfed to hell and back. Much of the content you see on /r/all is likely corporate shilling with sock puppets controlling the promotion of the ite
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by vatueil 8y ago
It's mostly regional variation rather than brand names. American English almost always uses "cotton swab" as the generic term while British English today uses "cotton bud" more often. Overall "cotton swab"

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